do YOU think that you’re being prescriptivist about blogging? I, personally, am a big fan of style manuals as a way to regularize things even if they change yearly, because writing is easier to understand with some regularity of certain conventions. I thought that was what you were trying to do, not tell people what they were “allowed” to do.

i think it was pretty harmless, but at the same time i was trying to be provocative with my “proposed ethics” i think the word “rules” which was really just a reference to what jason, jean, and i called them, rubbed some people the wrong way.
i don’t mean rules as in things that need to be followed, but more standards or unifying principles.